I am interested to see the approach on conference championship games now for two reasons.
1. It is impossible to fairly play a balanced schedule in the Big Ten specifically when you will only see half the conference in the regular season.
2. A team could actually be "punished" for playing in its conference championship game if it is sitting 9th or 10th in the second to last CFP rankings and loses, thus falling out of the top 11.
Big Ten needs to get to 20 and just do 4 divisions of 5. You play each of your divisional opponents once, plus two from each other division. Cut one non-con game and move the season up a week.
Four division winners play semis then, the two winners of those play for the conference championship.
Probably makes too much sense and would never happen.
East: Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, Ohio State, Pittsburgh
West: USC, Oregon, Washington, UCLA, Nebraska
Central: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois
Midwest: Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue